Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!